Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-03-05
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
DAKOTA.

layed so often at Brookings as this winter.
1t Is stated that the closing Of the Cantor
saloons has not stopped the sale Of liquors.
A lodge of the Ancient Order Of unite'
Workmen Is to be organized at Rapid City.
Arrangements are being made TO incorpo
rate a cemetery association at Hot Springs.
The poor farm scheme was vetoed by GranG
Forks county electors in the recent election
The Sioux Falls Argus wants TO call TIT
governors little daughter Miss Dakot'
Church.
Buffalo Gap has an enterprising citizen Th'
runs a combination barber shop and mining
xchange.
Straw brings 81 a load in Mercer county
1t IS almost impossible to get hay at an.
price.
The members OF the Methodist church q
jamestown have decided to enlarge theiI
church.
Fred Kibbe, the founder OF the Plankinton
Free Press, is about to start a newspaper in
Mitchell.
About April LIST = daily stage will be run
\. each way from Bowdle to La Grace by the way
Of Mound City.
The young ladies of the normal school at
Madison have organized q military company
and drill regularly.
Local and travelling nurserymen report
large sales OF trees for spring delivery In the
Black Hills country.
The corner stone of the new Odd Fellows
hall To be built at Grand Forks this summer
| will he of Sioux Fails jasper.
Cattle are suffering intensely lin Dickey
county on account OF the deep snow aud the
protracted cold weather.
Over a dozen brick business buildings, TO
be erected this year, have already been planed
and contracted for at Canton, d.. I
A purchaser has been found in New York
FOR the Srearfsh water works bonds and the
plant will be built as soon as possible.
The Higbmore Herald jubilated the gush OF
water from the ~artesian well by issuing an
appropriate extra, illustrated with cuts.
A bicycle club Of twenty members will CO.
operate with the Mitchell hremen In enter
tanning the tournament people there next
June,
Yankton's board Of trade will petition the
legislature against the passage OF the bill
! providing for the inspection OF illuminating
oil.
There are 200 voters in the Biz Horn basin
but Uncle Sam does not furnish them with
mail service. They hire a man at 800 per
month.
The Black Hills Fire association has decid-
ed to have It's annual tournament at Lead
City, beginning July 1 and continuing three
days.
! The commissioners Of Beadle county refuse
,o abate taxes on cancelled or suspended
claims, and the matter will be carried TO the
courts.
The people of Woonsockct and Crow Lake
are moving to establish a new mall route
from one place to the other via Parsons ana
Gordon.
The engine OF Greenwood nall at Deadwood
was blown up Monday with giant powder
It is said that dissatisfied workmen are re-
sponsible,
The people OF Lincoln county have had no
extended term of court for two years, and
matters of litigation are suffering greatly for
want Of attention
The long-disp uted settlement between Grant
and Roberts counties has been effected. Grant
county accepts $1,000 as Roberts county's
share Of the Indebtedness.
The Aberdeen public schools have an en-
rollment Of 300 since the January term began
The high school will graduate a class OF SIX
at the end Of the school year.
Prosecutions have been commenced against
vendors of liquor in Toward. The hrst ease
resulted In conviction. The village has an
ordinance prohibiting the sale OF intoxlcan's'
The general store of McDonald & Ensign at
Cando, Towner county, was totally DESTROYED
by the fire Monday morning. Loss, S3,OOo;
fully insured. The firm will probably re-
build.
The extreme cold weather, scarcity OF water
and IN some cases scarcity OF feed, are hard
on stock In Hand county. Many cattle own
ers are compelled TO sell at low prices or suffer
total loss.
! A rousiug railroad meeting was held at
Canton Saturday evening, and considerable
| talk was indrlged in for and against the com
| ~pletion OF a branch Of the Burlington, Cedar
Rapids and Northern to that city.
The c~ontrac. between the water-works com
pany and the city Of Fargo was thought to
contain a woodchuck, but investigation by
the board OF trade of Fargo has Strengthened
the impression to one of satisfaction.
Mayor Harris, Of Yankton, has applied to
he war department, through Delegate Gif
ford, for a supply Of dynamite for demoiish
ing ice gorges, and has asked that an army
officer be detailed to use the explosive.
In 1876 the e were only three priests and
few Catholics In Dakota. Now there are on,
bishop, one viearIgeneral, so priests, IL
churches, - chapcls, 4 academies, % p~arochia
schools, 20 students for priesthood and over
5000 Catholics.
ID. l.. Clinton seems TO b. having lots o.
trouble. He married a girl In Bridgewater
aud 1t Is now reported that he has anotheI
wife in Mitchell and some half dozen or NOR
in lowe. Last Wednesday night he wa
taken TO Mitchell, the sheriff keeping lin
company.
The ears belonging 10 the Milwaukee an'
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